The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-21

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In other words, God who can make no mis-
Take, made MAN ami woman for specific
"orN,lnG 10 move III particular Sphrre>-nlau
10 Dc reSninc n his realm: Woman to be dOlni-
nant il hers. The boundary lin. between
Italy and Switzerland, between England and
Scotland, Is not more III roughly marked
than this distinction between the empire
maScu!ln" ana the empire feminine SO ea-
urety dlsS!:nli;IT ars. the fields 20 which God
called them, ti!a. You can no more compare
them than You can oxygen and hydrogen,
water and grass. trees and stars. All this
tax about tie superiority OF one scx 10 the
other Sex Is an everlasting waste Of ink and
speech. Ieweler Iuav have q scale so
delicate that he can wriSh the dust Of dia-
monds; but here are the scales so delicate
that he can weigh in them affection against
affection, sentiment against sentiment
thought against thought, soul against soul,
mans world against a woman'S world.
You come out with your stereotyped
remark, the man is superior to wo-
man n intellect; and then l open
on my desk the Swarthv. iron-tvpsa
thunderbolted writings OF Harriet Martinesa
and Elizabeth Browning and George Eiios
Sou come on with your Stereotypei reusare
about woman superiority TO man III the iterr
OF affection: bat ask You wlere was there
more capac.ty 70 love than il John the
Disciple, and Robert WcCheylle. the Scotch
man, and John Summertcd the Methodist,
and henry Martin the missionary? The heart
of those men was so large that after YOU
had rolled into it two hemiSphereS there
was room still left to marshal the
hosts Of heaven and set up the throne
of the eternal Jehovah. I deny to man
throne afectional. No human phraseology
will ever define the spheres while there is
an intuition by which we know when man
is IN his realm, and when q women is in her
realm, and when either Of them is out of it.
No tungllng legislature ought to attempt to
make definition, or to say: This is the line
and that is the line" My theory is that if
woman wants TO vote she ought to vote
and that If d man wants to embroider and
keep house, he ought TO be allowed to en-
brolder and keep house. Thee are masculine
women and there are etfe!ninate men. My
theory is, that YOU have no right to interfere
with any ones doing anything that is right
eouS Albany aud Washington might as well
decree by legislation how high brown
thraSher should hy, or how deep a trout
should plunge, IS to try to seek out the
height or tie depth Of woman,s duty. The
question OF capacity will settle finally the
whole question, the whole subject When
woman is sprepared to preach, she will preach,
and neither Conference nor PreSbytery can
hinder her When woman is prepared to
move in highest commercial spheres, she will
have great influence on the Exchange, and
no boards of trade can hinder her. ! want
can overly arv barrier that politicians NAV
set up, and that no,hiog can keep her back or
keep her down but the question of fincapacitv.
There are women. know of most nndesir-
able nature, who wander up and down the
country-havinc no homes of their own. or
forSaking their own homes-talking about
their rights: and we know very well tnat they
themselves are fit neither to vote nor fit to
keep house Their mission seems to be to hu-
initiate the two sexes at the thought of what
any one of us might become. No one would
want to live under the laws that such women
yvonl6 enact or to have cast 1,pon society the
chiIdrer that s,rh women wonld raise R,,t
! shall show Won this morning that the best
rich-s that woman c., own she already has
in her rosseSs;on. that he,. poSitio,, in this
country M This ti,ra IS NOT one ot c5,,,nliSe,.a
lion, hut one OF con~raruiation: thar tie
grandeur and power OF fer realm have never
Vet been APPRECIATED: that She sits to-day on
2 throne so high. thai all tn. thrones of earth
niled on top of each other would
not make for her a footstool. Here is the
nIa+form on which sha stands Away down
below it are the ballot-boy and the con-ress-
ional assemblage and the Legislative hall.
Woman always has voted and always will
vote. Our great.granofathers thought they
were by their votes putting Washington into
the presidential chair. No. His mother, by
the principles she taught him, and by the
habits she incucated. made him President. 1t
was Christian mothers hand dropping the
ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton
philosophical, and Alfred the Great gov
erned, and Jonathan Edwards thundered Of
Judgment to come. How many men there
have been in high political station who would
have been insufficient to stand the test
to which their moral principle was put had
IL not been for wifes voice that encouraged
them to do right. and wife's prayer that
sounded louder than the clauor 0: partisan
ship! Why, my friends. the right OF suffer
age, as we men exercise It, seems to be g.
feeble thing. You, Christian man, come
up to the ballot-5ox and YOU drop your vote.
Right after you comes Ebertine, or sot-
the offscouring Of the street-and he drops
his vote; and his vote counteractS yours But
Christian demeanor, a wife by her industry,
a mother by her faithfuineSS. casts vote in
fine RIGHT direction. then nothing can resist it.
and the influence of that vote will throb
+hrrupb tho eternities.
NV CHIEF anxiety then is, not that woman
have other rights accorded her; but that she.
w 20 tho .,n-aci..
oy ene grace OF Hoo' tIs7 o2 W 'ue 1ppt &c
tlon OF Gne g.oFlous F4guss sue a. S.os -, 20
sesseS Inns morning sHai4 on5S S; Ia We 1;-...
10 speak OF one SFano aHU e.i3-a ct.o
right that every woman mas ana tnaC Is
make home happy Inat reaAN no one nas
e+,,oo,, ~. ~ ,,;o,b, snd rhav terry q com
ra-a+;,-aI,, G+.Ia ,.h;la. b,,- She all day LONG.
seo,arnS = bsertif;eS If sanctifies it. 1t IS
S;-h;,, bar ,,,,,o 70 ,,,al,a i tha most attrac-
i've DIaca on aar+b II * the only calm har.